[gmx-developers] FW: Gromacs quotes

[Anton Feenstra]

On 17/12/12 10:56, Mark Abraham wrote:
> I agree there are some quotes that can be thought sexist, in poor taste,
> etc. That can vary from person to person, and change over time, so while
> I'm all up for bringing an occasional smile to a face, it is never worth
> doing so at cost to a frown ever.
>
> Unfortunately, some bright spark decided to keep the quote database in a
> binary push-only stack format (IIRC from when I looked at it a few years
> ago with the view to removing some sexist quotes then). I could see no
> way to get a whole-of-list output, never mind change the list in the
> back end. Obviously one could harvest the list with a repetitious shell
> script (so I can't even imagine why the binary format?), and re-push the
> approved ones to an empty database, but there's still an unnecessary
> barrier to adding more quotes. So, unless I'm wrong with the above,
> unless someone knows how to re-implement the database more
> transparently, the current quote mechanism will go on the cutting room
> floor in January :-)

If it hasn't changed, it's just bitwise negated.
There used to be a small tool called cript (or crypt), but I don't think 
the source was in the gromacs tree.

The reason for that was to discourage people reading the whole list in 
one go.


Oh, and of course, I use a new one everyday in my e-mail tags.
Never had one complaint about that. ;-)


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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